Abstract expressionism and the American experience
[Book]
:a reevaluation /by Irving Sandler.
Lenox [ Mass.] :New York :Manchester, VT :
: Hard Press Editions ;
, c2009.
240 p.
:col. ill.
;26 cm.
English
Series from jacket.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. The avant-garde in the 1930s : mastering the School of Paris -- Ch. 2. World War II : mythmaking and biomorphism -- Ch. 3. Field painting : from the terrible sublime to the exalted sublime -- Ch. 4. Gesture painting : improvisation and authenticity -- Ch. 5. Abstract expressionism and the Cold War -- Ch. 6. Field painting and gesture painting and their critics -- Ch. 7. The recognition of abstract expressionism -- Appendix. Image copyright information.